TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@midwest.social
- Comment on Hell 8 hours ago:
I often end up being a rubber duck.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 days ago:
I did the perpendicular thing for a while, but two of the magnets I use with the phone (one a charger, one just a mount) are strong enough that removing the phone perpendicularly is difficult.
If I ever decide I don’t want my printer case, I’ll try the loctite solution! Thanks!
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 days ago:
I 3D printed my phone case. I had considered going without a case, but the Snap 4 Luxe, which I absolutely love, adheres better to cases than the bare phone. That could be my fault, maybe I didn’t clean the phone or adhesive properly, but if I have the phone on a magnet sometimes the Snap stays behind.
So I found a case design someone else made, brought it into Blender (because I don’t know CAD), thickened the back to the same distance as the Snap, then made a hole for the Snap and made sure to include a lip to cover over its curved bezel. I printed the first few layers in a tough 68D TPU, then switched to a 95A TPU for the rest. The tough layers and the lip keep the Snap held to the phone even when the adhesive fails, and the softer TPU makes the case easy to put on and remove.
(This is like, my seventh iteration of this case, and it sure seems flawless for the past few weeks.)
This lets me use the Snap with as little wireless charging distance as possible. I found that some cases added to the inherent 2.5mm of the Snap are just too much distance to reliably charge using weaker qi chargers. With this setup I can wirelessly charge much more reliably! And since I thickened the back of the case, the magnets on the Snap now sit flush with the rest of the back, making qi2-based external batteries more manageable.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 6 days ago:
In Nate Bargatze’s recent standup special he talked about how he, a water meter reader at the time, was tasked with protecting his town’s water tower after 9/11. With a flashlight. He did a much better job making it funny than I can, but I remember that level of fear. “It’s called terrorism because they make you afraid they can hit anywhere!” I remember hearing.
Which is silly in retrospect, Al Qaeda only hit major, symbolic targets in the US and never did “hit anywhere.”
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 weeks ago:
Remarkably, it has happened. People suddenly decide to pay attention to authority when they’re in a terrifying situation they’ve never experienced.
- Comment on Pooping with friends 2 weeks ago:
I’m not your buddy, guy.
But I am also poopin’.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s fantastic. Crazy soft. Softer than cotton.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
It’s a type of rayon fabric made from beech tree cellulose. Some underwear manufacturers use it. Very soft, very comfy. It’s the reason podcasters successfully sell MeUndies. 🤣
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Not a regular bra, never a regular bra. But a stretchy, breathable micromodal bralette.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
Is okay to choose A simply because B is quite literally orange hitler?
Obviously yes. Doing so isn’t saying A is fine, doing so is saying B is worse, and bad is still better than worse.
If you tried to say that there was no reason to be concerned with A because B was worse, that’s a fallacy. But acknowledging that one of two options, while still bad, is LESS bad, isn’t a fallacy. That’s just being realistic.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
One I see people use frequently and I’m not sure they realize it’s a bad argument is the fallacy of relative privation.
“X is bad. We should do something to fix X.”
“Y is so much worse. I can’t believe you want to fix X when we need to fix Y.”
Both X and Y can be bad and need to be fixed. Fixing one doesn’t preclude fixing the other.
An alternate form of this is:
“A is bad”
“B is worse, so A is fine.”
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
I was going to recommend this very thing.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Occasionally my wife has slept in a bralette instead of a shirt. Apparently she thinks it’s comfy.
- Comment on Never forget 2 weeks ago:
The levels are fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I 3D printed some Crocs, does that count?
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 4 weeks ago:
It was remarkable how much fake Weird Al music there was. Someone maintained a helpful “Not Al” list.
- Comment on Someone give me money so I can find out 4 weeks ago:
Lol as opposed to… Any other type of meat? I don’t think any meat where they are raised to be shot in the head in an assembly line is “cruelty free”
The world isn’t black and white, there are spectra. I’m not saying meat isn’t cruel, just that some forms of meat are more cruel than others.
FWIW, I’m neither vegan nor vegetarian, but I have made an effort to reduce my meat consumption.
- Comment on Someone give me money so I can find out 4 weeks ago:
Foie gras makes me sad. It’s usually cruel, produced by force-feeding animals. There are ways to make it humanely but they are rarely carried out.
But damn is it good. I don’t eat it anymore, but I have had it a couple of times and loved it.
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 5 weeks ago:
And deli style American cheeses, with lower milk content and thus a firmer, more cheese-like consistency, make the perfect cheese for a good burger. Melty but not stringy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I remember fucking around with magnets to pull or push a desktop image and being scolded by a supervisor. “You’re going to break it!”
Break what? The photons? All I’m doing is the same thing the monitor itself is doing.
- Comment on How to secure research funding 1 month ago:
I’m excited to hear about this article in a future episode of MBMBaM.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 1 month ago:
Though comically, in Iceland they got the populace to convert to Christianity by saying it was okay to worship Thor in private.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, in my younger days I got up to ≈210km/h once. I can’t believe I was dumb enough to do that.
At 200km/h, you’re passing the cars around you as quickly as you usually pass stuff stationary by the side of the road. It’s insane.
The car felt planted and controlled, but still. One slightly wrong move and I would’ve been flying off an embankment or killing a fellow motorist.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 months ago:
Qi2 standard really helps with that. It incorporates the magnetic alignment and higher speeds from Apple’s MagSafe. Magnetic alignment makes wireless charging much better. Still less efficient than wired charging, but much more efficient than Qi without magnetic alignment.
If your phone doesn’t have the magnetic ring baked in you can often find cases that provide it, or magnets you can add to the outside of a case. Though my phone does have the magnets baked in, I also have a Snap 4 Luxe and I 3D printed a case that fits around it, to minimize the distance between charger and phone. Works really well!
- Comment on omg 2 months ago:
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 2 months ago:
Can u get pregante?
- Comment on Physicists vs Normal People 2 months ago:
I learned something today.
I was taught in my younger days that “homonyms” were words that were spelled the same but pronounced differently, and “homophones” were words that were pronounced the same but spelled differently. “Break” and “brake” would then be homophones.
But it turns out “homonym” is the broader category including “homophones,” “homographs,” and words where both are true (same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings). So homophones are homonyms.
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P.S. Though Wikipedia says a more technical definition would limit “homonym” to, specifically, the third category, words that are spelled and pronounced the same but with different meanings. They give examples of “stalk” (part of a plant) and “stalk” (follow/harass a person), or “skate” (glide on ice) and “skate” (a type of fish).
P.P.S. This reminds me of the autoantonym (a word that is its own opposite) “cleave,” which can mean “to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly” or “to split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain.“ I don’t know if “cleave” is technically a homonym, or if these are simply two definitions for the same word, and I don’t know who would decide that. But it’s still a fun word.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 2 months ago:
Yeah what does “substantially” mean in this context?
The context is laid out clearly. You earn one additional dollar and that one additional dollar puts you in the 33% tax bracket.
Your tax bill would go up by 33% of one dollar. $0.33. Total.
The question doesn’t specify whether we’re talking about total dollars paid or just how much the tax percentage increases in that bracket.
It’s irrelevant. Your “total dollars paid” in taxes would increase by $0.33, and the difference that extra dollar is taxed vs the previous dollar is $0.05. Neither of these are “substantial.”
This question simply asks whether 0: you have reading comprehension skills and 1: you understand how tax brackets work.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 2 months ago:
What?
The question isn’t loaded at all, it just tests whether people know how tax brackets work.